English syntax and argumentation. Second edition 2001. Palgrave Modern Linguistics Series. Basingstoke and London: Palgrave. A Korean translation of this book by Professor Dong-hwan An was published in 2002 in Seoul by the Hankook Publishing company.

The role of argumentation in the description of English. 1997.
In: Jan Aarts, Herman Wekker and Inge de Mönninck (eds.) Studies
in English language and teaching: in honour of Flor Aarts.
Amsterdam: Rodopi. 7-21.

Investigating English around the world: The International Corpus
of English. 1999. (With Gerald Nelson.) In: Rebecca S. Wheeler (ed.)
The workings of language: from prescriptions to perspectives.
New York: Praeger. 107-115.

Approaches to the English gerund. In: Graeme Trousdale
and Nikolas Gisborne (eds.) Constructional explanations in English
grammar. Topics in English Linguistics 57. 2008. Berlin and New
York: Mouton de Gruyter. 11-31.

Recent changes in the use of the progressive construction in English. (With Joanne Close and Sean Wallis). In: Bert Cappelle and Naoaki Wada (eds.) Distinctions in English grammar, offered to Renaat Declerck. 2010. Tokyo: Kaitakusha. 148-167.

Current change in the modal system of English: a case study of must, have to and have got to. (With Joanne Close.) In: Ursula Lenker, Judith Huber, and Robert Mailhammer (eds), The history of English verbal and nominal constructions. Volume 1 of English historical linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich 24-30 August 2008. 2010. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 165-181.

Reviews and shorter pieces

Review of Bob Rigter and Frits Beukema (1985), A government
and binding approach to English sentence structure. First explorations
in English syntax, Part 2. Apeldoorn: van Walraven. 1988. English
Studies 69.3, 286-287.

Getting Started with ICECUP . For use with The British
Component of The International Corpus of English (ICE-GB) Versions
3.0 and 3.1 and A Diachronic Corpus of Present-Day Spoken English
(DCPSE) (With Gerald Nelson and Sean Wallis.). Second Edition,
2006. London: Survey of English Usage.

Grants awarded

The British AcademyThe ICE-GB handbook, 1999. £3,808. This grant was awarded to enable the
publication of Exploring natural language by Gerald Nelson, Sean Wallis and
Bas Aarts (Amsterdam: John Benjamins 2002). See also: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/ice-gb/book.htm.

Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB)The English noun phrase: an empirical study, 1999. £78,732.
The project’s
aims were to carry out a large-scale study of the English Noun Phrase (NP),
using the British component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-GB)
as a database (see above). The overall research objective was for the Research
Fellow Dr Evelien Keizer (now at the University of Amsterdam) to produce a
comprehensive typology of English NPs which was published in a monograph published
by Cambridge University Press. See also: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/noun-phrase/index.htm.

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)Creating a parsed and searchable diachronic corpus of present-day
spoken English,
2002. £132,951. This project developed a corpus that allows recent
changes in spoken English to be studied systematically. The corpus
is composed
of two 400,000-word samples of spoken English from the London-Lund
Corpus
and from ICE-GB. The material is fully parsed, consistently with the
ICE-GB
corpus, and searchable using the ICE-GB exploration software. See
also: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/diachronic/index.htm.
This project was graded as ‘outstanding’ research by the ESRC.

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). (With Sean
A. Wallis.)Next generation tools for linguistic research in grammatical
treebanks, 2005. £156,307.
This research project developed a computer program for linguists to carry out
complex, statistically sound experiments investigating grammar within a large
treebank corpus. See also: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/projects/next-gen/index.htm.
This project was graded as ‘outstanding’ research by the ESRC.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)The changing verb phrase in present-day British English,
2007. £265,555.
This project will be a large-scale investigation of changes in the (morpho)syntax
of the spoken British English verb phrase over a period of twenty-five years
(1960s-1990s), using the Diachronic Corpus of Present-day Spoken English.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)Creating a Web-Based Platform for English Language Teaching
and Learning, 2009. £357,439.
The aim of this project is to build a web-based teaching and learning platform
consisting of an interactive structured English language course, tailored to
the goals of the National Curriculum’s Key Stages 3-5. This will consist
of lesson modules dynamically accessing the corpora based at the Survey of
English Usage.

UCL Business PLCMobile Device Apps: A New Channel for UCL Knowledge Transfer
Activities, 2011. £14,400.
The aim of this project is to develop the iGrammar of English (iGE) as an ‘App’ for
Apple hand-held devices.

UCL Enterprise AwardMarketing the resources of the Survey of English Usage, 2011. £94,433.
Funded by

UCL’s EPSRC Knowledge Transfer Account. The aim
of this project is to progress the development of the AHRC-funded
Web-Based Platform for English Language Teaching and Learning to
the point where a commercialisation partnership can be finalised.

UCL Teaching Innovation Grant Developing a suite of Apps for the Teaching of English Grammar. £4,867.
This funding, provided by UCL’s Vice-Provost (Education),
will be used to develop a number of Apps for handheld devices that
will complement the existing interactive Grammar of English (iGE;
see below). The Apps that will be developed will help students
practise their skills in four areas, namely grammar, writing, spelling
and punctuation.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)Extending the Englicious platform for primary English. In this Follow-on Project the Survey of English Usage will work with the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) and St. Aidan's Primary School in north London to extend the Englicious web-based platform for the teaching of English language at secondary schools to a new audience, namely pupils at Key Stages 1 and 2 at primary schools. £89,402.

Office of the Pro Vice Provost (Life Learning)Grant to develop CPD courses for English grammar. £10,000.